MacMillan
Bands: RYRYRYRYR · Stripes: R LY R LY R LY R LY R R LY R LY R LY R LY R
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
- MacMillan
- MacMillan - 1842 (Dress)
- MacMillan Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1723. Earliest known date: 1906 The modern Dress MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design but omits the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Thread count
R/1 Y8 R2 Y8 R3 Y2 R12 Y1 R/3

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #C8C800 #C8C800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacMillan — ΔT 0.54
- MacMillan Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1723. Earliest known date: 1906 The modern Dress MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design but omits the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.82
- Glassary #3 — ΔT 1.38
- MacMillan - 1842 (Dress) — ΔT 1.45
- Maguire, Black — ΔT 1.86
- Livingstone — ΔT 1.86
- Masai Shuka 16 (Artefact) — ΔT 1.92
- Makhtoum — ΔT 1.94
- Livingstone — ΔT 1.98
- MacKintosh Fragment — ΔT 1.99
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s9/r3ly1r12ly2r3ly8r2ly8r1/